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MARKETING AND NETWORKING, SMALL BUSINESS ADVICE

DesignRush | July 11, 2022

46% of all Google searches have local intent. That’s an impressive 37,000 local searches per second. It matters because 76% of consumers that perform a local search on their phones visit a store that day, as shared by Backlinko. While Google’s traditional ranking factors apply to local SEO, there are various other strategies that businesses, especially small ones, can leverage to increase exposure in local listings. DesignRush, a B2B marketplace connecting businesses w...

SMALL BUSINESS ADVICE

Opportunity Fund | January 07, 2021

Opportunity Fund, the nation's leading nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) to small businesses, today declared partnerships with Meriwest Credit Union, Self-Help Federal Credit Union, and UMe Credit Union, part of the nonprofit lenders' $1 Billion obligation to investing in minimized businesses nationwide in the following two years. These partnerships increase small business owners' access to transparent, reasonable credit — especially among businesses ...

TECHNOLOGY

BigCommerce | March 15, 2022

BigCommerce announced a partnership with Bolt. BigCommerce is a leading Open SaaS eCommerce platform for fast-growing and established brands. While Bolt is a leading checkout and shopper network company. The partnership will now offer a brand new way for small-medium- and enterprise-sized BigCommerce merchants to set up Bolt One-Click Checkout in a self-serve manner within minutes. In addition, Bolt can be integrated into merchants' BigCommerce stores, enabling them to provide safe, one-clic...

SMALL BUSINESS ADVICE

Green Finance | July 09, 2021

Funding Options, a business finance platform, has launched a Green Finance marketplace. This initiative reaffirms Funding Options' commitment to driving sustainability in the SME lending market by connecting businesses to the funding they require to achieve net-zero. The Green Finance marketplace will help to increase transparency and awareness of the funding options available to help SMEs, with financial products increasingly rewarding businesses that actively seek to reduce their carbon fo...